Microsoft admits Vista failure. Actions speak louder than PR

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Quote from patoo:

Yes, there were PC's....with no standard operating system. CPM and the 8080 chip were just one combination in a field of a thousand O/S-hardware combinations.

CPM evolved to Windows. Until Microsoft had Windows 3.1 in 1993 and promised hardware independence, there was no clear direction.

Microsoft has the direction now. So, the O/S-hardware is not important anymore. What we are developing on the Windows platform is what counts, regardless of what version of Windows.

no. PC, as in "personal computer", was introduced on August 12, 1981, and had since its introduction an MS-DOS system:

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm

the IBM PC had an architecture with standard components, which allowed many companies to copy it, making the PC the computer everyone knows today.
Microsoft had just the luck to be there. They didn't give any direction, the market did.
And CPM didn't evolve to Windows. MS-DOS, which was a copy of CPM, bought by Microsoft, did.